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Aspalathus chenopoda
Aspalathus chenopoda is a fynbos shrub from the Cape Peninsula in South Africa, rare and found nowhere else. It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care advice is drawn mainly from general knowledge of Aspalathus and fynbos shrubs.
Aspalathus chenopoda is a shrub belonging to the genus Aspalathus. The species is endemic to the Western Cape and forms part of the fynbos. It is found only in the Cape Peninsula, has a distribution area of 497 km² and is considered rare.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aspalathus chenopoda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
